NEWSLETTER FALL 2014

PSALM 92
5 O Lord, how great are Your works!
Your thoughts are very deep.
6 A senseless man does not know,
Nor does a fool understand this.
It's been a good Summer and Fall with lots of things happening since the Spring newsletter. Praise the LORD the museum is celebrating 10 years since the first display case rolled out in 2004 and 5 years since the museum found a home at Goodwood Baptist Church in 2009. Click the ABOUT US tab and view the museum timeline. Check out the victories (and disasters) in this newsletter which transpired over the last 6 months including an amazing trip to Montana USA.
BIRTHDAY TOUR APRIL 12TH
We hosted the very first "Birthday Tour" at the museum April 12th. The theme was dinosaurs and the kids were presented with evidence that the dinosaurs (that didn't make it on the ark) died recently in a watery catastrophe. The kids were also able to see touch and hold real dinosaur bones and foot prints. Why don't you hold you next child's birthday at the Creation Research Museum of Ontario. For tour details visit: http://creationresearchontario.weebly.com/tours.html
Starting off with a dinosaur presentation
Waiting with anticipation to see who won the prize in the fossil draw. 
What's a birthday without cake!
Right away the kids were finding trilobite bits.
On this particular hunt we found lots of straight coned nautiloids. Close up of Joshua's find. 
Another nice nautiloid shell found.
This nautiloid shell is pyritized showing a gold metallic surface. 
Kids checking out dinosaur bones and footprints
Congratulations to Kayla who won a real dinosaur fossil bone.
The fossil collecting part of the tour. Although the kids didn't find any dinosaur bones they did find excellent marine fossils.
Close up of a trilobite tail, Pseudogygites latimarginatus
Joshua pointing to his discovery.
The boys having a great time of discovery 
Part of the heads of the trilobite Triarthrus eatoni. Also pyritized. Pyritization and the presence of oil all indicate this sediment was laid down quickly which is what you would expect in a world that was inundated by a world wide flood.
Below is a short video capturing some of the excitement of the hunt.
A few encouraging quotes from participants.  
Thank you, so much again, Martin. Alexandar and the kids had a blast. It was definitely something different than what they are used to.
Blessings, Darren.
 
 The boys truly enjoyed it, thank you so much for a great presentation.
Stephanie

MUSEUM OUTREACH APRIL 17TH
 The 4th and final restored fossils of Ontario display cabinet arrived at Bethel Baptist Church in Simcoe Ont. Thanks to Bethel for their support in taking some of the overflow that the museum can not hold. It beats storage in my basement anytime! For more details visit the NEW DISPLAYS page.
Pastor Michael McDonald and Martin Legemaate in front of the display
Pastor Michael and John Mackay on a 2008 fossil trip.
SHALE SLAB RUN MAY 3RD
Marc Kenyon and Martin Legemaate took the annual trek up to Collingwood to collect shale slabs for the open house fossil hunt. Hope 10 buckets are enough? Of course while we were there we had to do some fossil collecting too. We brought back a few nice gastropods and a small trilobite. Spotted a real cool straight coned nautiloid on the beach but alas it was too worn to be collected. 
Shale slabs on the beach near Craigleith Ont. More than we can carry back. God provides abundantly. 
Not a bad trilobite found when cracking open a slab.
Gastropod found at the Collingwood site after prepping.
Huge straight coned nautiloid on the beach. See loonie for scale.
Damaged but interesting positive side.
Nice cephalopod after prepping.
These 2 last fossils were a mess when chiseled out of the rock. See before and after photos and how they were prepped in the latest Fossil collecting tips article. Click the FOSSIL COLLECTING TIPS  tab and scroll down to "ALL CRACKED UP! FOSSIL COLLECTING TIPS PART 4.
OPEN HOUSE May 17th
We were a bit nervous about the rain the past several days but it cleared up just in time for the open house outside activities on Saturday. Congratulations to Damon Hawkins from Beauty Point Tasmania who won the fossil draw, a complete trilobite (Pseudogygites latimarginatus). Fun day activities for kids were the fossil hunt and the rock pile. The event ended with a great evening talk with Richard Fangrad from CMI (Creation Ministries International). 
At the displays, Pastor Michael Liew, faithful supporters Carol Brandon and Frank Brandon and Richard Fangrad CEO of Creation Ministries International.
Busily working on the quiz to get into the draw to win a trilobite fossil.
Craig Hawkins and his family from Tasmania were vacationing here and dropped by for the open house. Craig is a Creation Debater and part of the Australian Creation Research Team. Craig and Rachelle own and run Seahorse World, a tourist attraction in Tasmania.http://www.seahorseworld.com
The boys carefully studying the captions.
Assisting the little ones with the quiz.
Family fun finding some great fossils in oil shale.
Splitting open the shale.
Amazing trilobite tails.
The kids learned that oil shale is formed from quickly buried plants and animals.
Lucas found the fossil of the day, a complete trilobite (Pseudogygites latimarginatus).
Poking through the rock pile to find some shiny rocks and minerals. Kids were able to take home a whole bucket.
Richard talking with guests.

Carol helping out at the book table.
The complete trilobite with countless bits surrounding it.
Close up of complete trilobite.
Thanks to a great presentation by Richard Fangrad entitled "Genetic Meltdown – Why Mutations are Leading to Extinction Not Evolution"
Refreshments after and browsing the book tables.
A good crowd to end off the day.
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FOSSIL SITE SEARCH May 10th
With a Creation Research fossil trip coming up on the 31st of May I took a run up to the Fenelon Falls area to see if our newly discovered site is still accessible and to look for other possible sites. At least 2 sites are needed for a decent all day fossil hunt. 
This site is in Zion Ontario but clearly too small
This road cut was on Kirkfield Road but way too high and way too dangerous with many rock slabs hanging precariously above. Unsuccessful today in finding a second site. 
Of course while I was there I had to do some poking around. Amazing crinoid stems can be found at this site.
This is a Goldilocks site, not too short and not too high
This crinoid stem shown earlier cleaned up nicely.
You'll also find some wild and wacky concretions.
Another road cut in Zion but the rock consisted of hard sandstone mostly devoid of fossils.
A visit to the Fenelon Falls site. An amazing variety of fossils can be found here as well as "Trace Fossils" which are are invertebrate burrowing and crawling.
Lots of animal activity can be found on the slabs here. Above the finger is a zig zag pattern made by an invertebrate animal with legs, To the right is probably a worm trail. To create prints like this indicates a rapid hardening of the sediment and then a quick overlaying of new sediment to preserve them.
I brought back a few fossils and washed them up. Many mirco fossils can be found if you have a good eye. These are brachiopods sitting on a dime.
More small fossils, bryozoans, coiled and spired gastropods, crinoids and horn coral.
 CONTINUED SITE SEARCH MAY 24TH
Thanks to a tip from Pastor Jack Hannah, former Creation Research Rep, I was able to secure a second fossil site. On Saturday I visited the second site for the upcoming fossil finding field trip. It is in a working quarry in the Kawartha Lakes area. This was an answer to prayer because of the dwindling accessible fossil sites around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Thanks to Tim Wessell who accompanied me and made this site visit (and subsequent fossil trip) possible.
Before heading to the quarry we stopped by a road cut on Regional Rd. 49. Lots of rock but not lots of fossils for a fossil trip.
Tim Wessell with the quarry wall and recent blasting material in the back ground.
Here are 3 trilobite tails found all in a row with a trilobite tail "cast" below.
I wasn't kidding when I said it was a working quarry!. Here they are drilling holes in preparation for future blasting.
Several fossils have been found on the trip today such as gastropods (snails), Worm Burrows, trace fossils, trilobite bits, concretions and vugs (cavities with crystals in them). Yes this will be an excellent place for a fossil trip!
Here we are at the quarry. They crush the stone and sell it for roads and highways.
Almost immediately we spotted the first fossil. A well worn but complete trilobite.
Quarry wall with rock slabs in the foreground.
The quarry is cut into the Gull River Formation. This limestone formation is the last one before you get into the Granitic Canadian Shield to the North and East. We were able to locate some fossil bearing layers which will save time searching on the fossil trip.
FOSSIL TRIP MAY 31ST
 Beautiful weather and nice fossil finds on a fossil trip to the Kawartha Lakes area. Check out the evidence people found for creation and against evolution. 
 
Arrival at the first site, a quarry. It is rare to be able to get into a quarry because of liability issues but we were very fortunate.
Almost immediately we were finding fossils thanks to the site search the week before where we located the blue fossil bearing rock. This is a trilobite tail.
Carol and Frank looking to take home some great specimens
Cindy and Ed in the foreground. Ed Van Gennip is the founder of the Museum of Natural Science and History and wants to put this creation museum to brick and mortar somewhere in Southern Ontario.http://www.truescience.ca/
Not just fossils can be found here but also metals and minerals such as this cubed pyrite.
These are tiny marine creatures called ostracods also called seed shrimp (Eoleperditia fabulites). Ostracods are called living fossils because they are still here. No matter how old evolutionists say these ostracods are, they have produced after their own kind just as is stated in the book of Genesis.
Zimran anticipating a great find.
The quarry wall in the background exposing the Gull River Formation.
Not a bad negative and positive impression of a trilobite tail.
At the second site. A road cut near Fenelon Falls. This cuts into the Verulam Formation and has different fossils than that of the quarry and the way to collect is also different than that of the quarry. 
Interesting crinoid stems which were in abundance here.
A slab of gastropods (snails) pointing in the same direction indicating these creatures were washed in.
The same slab after some prepping and enhancement ready for display.
Opening intro and safety talk.
Collecting in the talus of the quarry.
Adrian chiseling on the blue rock where the fossils are found.
A partial trilobite with outline. This is probably a bathyurus trilobite because they are known to be in these rocks.
David in the foreground poking through the blast piles.
Becky pointing to a slab with trace fossils on it. Animal activity probably caused by worms.
One of the ostracods removed from the slab and put under a microscope. There are over 40'000 species in the rocks and only 4'000 species living today. That's not evolution, that's extinction.
Adrian has his hammer on a slab just chock full of trilobite bits. Another happy camper.
On to the second site but first taking a little pause in Coboconk. Taking a stroll down the main street led us in front of Canada's smallest jail!
On this slab are assorted invertebrate trails. The stitch mark near the hammer is a trail made by an invertebrate with legs. Participants learned that these delicate markings must have been covered up quickly to be so well preserved.
Really nice brachiopod shell.
Some of the participants today. To the left is Becky Stewart and right is Cindy Julius coming all the way from Akron Ohio. Becky is a tour guide for the Akron Fossils & Science Center and Cindy is Education Director and Fossil Replica Manager. http://www.akronfossils.com/  At the back, Frank Brandon, to his right, Adrian Oberland and middle, David Zavita. Every one did not come home empty handed on this trip. No evolution was found today but what was found was evidence for Creation, as in living fossils and evidence for catastrophe, as in the lined up gastropods.
Some comments on the fossil trip....
Hi Martin, 
Thank you so much for all your prep work ... I think we all had a divinely blessed and joy filled day, and came away enriched ... not only by being together ... but also by seeing, first hand, the very rocks declaring the awesome Glory of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus, the soon returning King of kings. Best regards, David
 
I had such a great time.  I can hardly wait until I can spend a little time reviewing our finds....   all I can say is wow wow wow.... 
 Cindy Julius Education Director & Fossil Replica Manager AKRON FOSSILS & SCIENCE CENTER OHIO

 Interested in organizing your group for the next fossil trip? contact Museum Curator Martin Legemaate at [email protected]



DINOSAUR DIG IN GLENDIVE MONTANA JULY 21-23 2014 
Dave Milligan, Otis Kline and Martin Legemaate in front of Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum


Dave Milligan and Martin Legemaate  joined a group in Glendive Montana in July for 3 days of dinosaur digging organized by Vance Nelson (Creation Truth Ministries) and hosted by Otis Kline, founder and director of the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum. The 95 degree (35c) temps did not slow us down in digging up some excellent bones and and enjoying great fellowship with the group some of which were, Authors Gary and Mary Parker, Harry Nibourg owner of The Big Valley Creation Science Museum and Brian Thomas science writer for ICR (Institute for Creation Research). 

Some of the finds throughout the dig were in 3 categories. 1) Land Organisms such as trees including redwoods, figs, horsetails, various seedpods and tubers and of course dinosaurs. 2) Creatures that live in water and on land, crocodile and turtle. 3) Creatures that live in the water, garfish. 

You can tell we were in dinosaur country as soon as we arrived at Bismarck airport in North Dakota
Lots of wildlife we don't have back here in Ontario
Amazing scenery here
Dave Milligan discovering a fossilized tree trunk in the Painted Canyon. Dave helps with field research and collections for our Ontario museum. 
Interesting concretions can be found falling out of the bentonite clay
Gathering early in the morning in front of Glendive Dinosaur and Fossils Museum for Otis to lead us to the dig site.
Otis Kline giving an opening intro
Participants Brian Thomas and Gary Parker
Arriving at the dig site after a 10 minute climb
Overhead view of the dig site
Brian found a dinosaur bone found oriented in a NW-SE position
Brian, Vance and Mary screening the dirt looking for micro fossils
Dinosaur vertebra 
Gary and Otis working on a specimen
Congratulation to Dave for finding the largest garfish scale to date. Clearly now we were finding land and sea creatures all mixed together in one big dump deposit  
Horstail rush stem. These plants still exist and is an excellent example of a "living fossil"
Andrew is on to something
Crocodile skull fragment
Martin Legemaate with his goodie bag of fossils
The Painted Canyon in North Dakota was our first stop on the way to Glendive.
North Dakota and Montana is also Oil country.
Pretty flowers amongst the rough terrain
A gasoline sign in Glendive welcoming us to "Big Sky Country"
Meeting down at the pavilion before the dig
Vance Nelson also presenting an introduction
Making our way up to the dig site
The search is on
We're not used to this type of fossil hunting. Here you need a trowel and a brush. Dave is uncovering a bone
This tree branch was lined up in a NW-SE position. It was evident we were starting to see a water current was at work here.
Harry getting in on the act too
Making a plaster cast of the more fragile bones
Turtle shell
Way to go Dave
Leaves
More interesting concretions were found as we walked up and down the trail every day
Seed pod
Tree fig. Your starting to get the picture. Extinct organisms, living organisms. Land organisms, water organisms mixed all together. You just don't find evolution in the real world. It's only in the texts books and between the evolutionists ears! 
Vance sums up the dig best: 
"We were able to see, in just three days, a small snapshot of the ecological mixtures (land organisms mixed with water organisms) which would be predicted based on the Flood model of deposition—evidence of Noah's Flood. As discussed, many other examples have already been documented in the Hell Creek (Formation), including the presence of sharks and rays. 
Not to be missed, we also saw great evidence for Creation, that things have faithfully reproduced after their own kinds: fig trees, redwood trees, horsetails, turtles, crocodiles, and garfish. Nothing we saw in the three short days was any help to the theory of evolution at all!
As Dr. Gary Parker and Mary often say, ""What we see in God's world agrees with what we read in God's Word.""
It was a real pleasure to meet you all; a real blessing to be honest. Thanks for hanging out with us for a few days, and may God richly bless you all".

Not only was there a mix of fossils found but many were buried directionally in a NW-SE position further suggesting this is a dump deposit organized by water. 

A short video sample of the activity on the dig
Plastering a bone and capturing some of the high jinx we had on the dig! 
After a long day's dig Otis still had the energy to take us for a tour through the young earth based Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in Glendive. The fossils brought back to Canada from the dig will be cleaned up and displayed at our Creation Research Museum in Ontario.
You can check out the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum in more detail at:http://www.creationtruth.org/
Starting the tour in the lobby. Otis pointing out injuries that this T-rex endured. 
Lawrence and Vance viewing the displays 
Mosasaurus 
This is a a world class quality Creation museum worth seeing.
Group listening intently 
Huge turtles were found in the rock record. (Protostega gigas) 
The display cases are just loaded with real teeth and bones
A few short videos to get a better feel of the museum
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Was the email that you probably received in August. Many of you recognizing the spam, emailed 
or called back to ensure that I wasn't suggesting that they go on a weight reducing plan!

ST. MARYS QUARRY SEPT. 21ST 2014 
I thought the day was going to be a wash out but it cleared up quite quickly and we all discarded the rain coats and were able to enjoy a good day's collecting at St. Marys Quarry in Bowmanville arranged by CCFMS (Central Canadian Federation of Mineralogical Societies). Peter Lee reports, " We had 37 people at Bowmanville... all accounted for... people came from Michigan and Quebec. By lunch time the rain clouds disappear and the sun came out.... blue skies and the rocks were washed by the rain water.... Great turn out and those who missed it ... missed out on some great collecting". The quarry cuts through the lower portion of the Whitby Shale, the Cobourg Formation and the Upper Verulam. Collectors came away with some great finds. Scroll through the photos and read the captions to see some of the highlights of the day.
As soon as you arrive your realize the size and scope of this quarry.
10 seconds out of the car I found this first incomplete isotelus trilobite. I left it but I hope someone cut it out and took it home!
A very nice isotelus trilobite found by Phil.
Pyritized Brachiopod Collingwood Oil Shale, Bowmanville. Nikon 995 + 70mm enlarger lens direct coupled, 6000K lights. (photo by Peter Lee)
Lothar's coiled cephalopod. Species name, "Trocholites ammonius"
A short video of the rock cutting procedure
Martin taking the positive impression home "as is" for further preparation and cutting. Cutting this side in the field may ruin the specimen without applying a clear coat over the loose shale first.
Rare Lingula species found by Peter Lee in the Whitby Formation Shale. Photo by Peter Lee
Collectors gathering in the parking lot. A larger group this year.
Collectors on the blast piles looking for some good take home specimens. Some people were beginning to find some good trilobites
Peter collecting in the Whitby Shale (Upper level). This is an anoxic (without oxygen) shale. He was impressed with the pyritization of the fossils. For pyritization to occur you need a no or low oxygen environment which indicates these fossils were buried fast and deep.
Lothar found a rare coiled cephalopod. He was a happy camper.
The second year in a row Martin Legemaate finds a complete Trilobite Pseudogygites latimarginatus
The newly purchased cordless circular saw especially adapted for rock cutting in the field saved the day (and the trilobite) in getting this fossil out. If you are only making a few cuts then this saw is the way to go. It is lighter and cheaper that a gas powered saw.
The negative impression of the trilobite is all cut and ready to be pried up
Nice distinct lingula shells are found here
Sign out time after a good day's dig
Well of course the "Die Hards" stayed right up till the last minute!
I confirmed my suspicions (by smashing one open) that the bulbous bryozoans I though I had brought home from St Marys Quarry (lower level, Verulam) are in fact a calcaeous green algae called "Cyclocrinites". I'm happy because this is the first time encountering them.
Telltale texture that these are Cyclocrinites. These were found in Middle Ordovician rocks considered by evolutionists to be 450 million years old. If you believe in evolution and millions of years you would have to conclude that bulbous algae exhibits stasis (no change) because they still exist today as their modern cousins the dasyclad algae. These marine (salt water) plants* live in waters up to 90 meters deep. All we see so far is algae turning into algae. Genesis calls this "Producing after their own kind". 

*REF. First non-calcified dasycladalean alga from the Carboniferous Lyall L. Anderson (2009) N.Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Abh. vol. 251/1, p. 119-128 Stuttgart
2 RESTORED DISPLAYS AT CMI 
(CREATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL) NOV. 2014
2 of the newly restored Ontario fossil show cases are set up at the CMI  Canadian office in Kitchener Ontario. The first one is a "Living Fossils and Extinction" display. Both are no help to the theory of evolution. The second display, "Evidence of Quick Burial". Ontario has had a catastrophic past pointing to the flood of Noah's day. Click the NEW DISPLAYS tab to follow the set up story.